Means for handling telegraphic receiving-tapes for translation.



Patented Sept. 23, I902.

P. B. DELANY. .M EANS'FOR HANDLING TELEGRAPH) RECEIVING TAPES FORTRANSLATION.

(Application filed Aug. 20 1901.: (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 709,752. Patented Sept. 23, I902.

P. 'B. DELANY. MEANS FOR HANDLING TELEGRAPHIC RECEIVING TAPES FOBTRANSLATION.

(Application filed Aug. 20. 1901.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2,

N l m ,m""""" HI WW ummm I S it A III}' WITNESSES: INVENTOR fim4 AQ/MUNITED STaTEs PATENT @JFJFICE.

PATRICK B. DELANY, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

MEANS FOR HANDLING TELEGRAPHIC RECEIVING-TAPES FOR TRANSLATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N6. 709,752, datedSeptember 23, 1902.

Original application filed December 15, 1896, Serial No. 615,796.Divided and this application filed August 20, 1901. Serial No. 72,632.(No model.)

To all whom it natty concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK B. DELANY, a citizen of the United States,residing at South Orange,county of Essex, State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for HandlingTelegraphic Receiving-Tapes for Translation, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists of a device for pulling the tape with thereceived message recorded thereon across the translators desk indefinite lengths at a time quickly and for convenience of translationabout two feet at each movement. As the clockwork or motor turning thepulling-rollers is controlled by a button within easy reach of thetype-writer or translator, no time is lost in handling the tape or infinding the startingplace after each movement of the tape. Eachdepression of the button releases the clockwork for a definite number ofturns of the pulling-rollers, and this releasing may be effectedelectromagnetically or mechanically. In this way translation is greatlyfacilitated. It will beunderstood that each spool, with its roll of tapeas taken fromthereceivinginstrument,isslipped loosely on a spindle atthe right-hand side of the translators desk, and the tape is drawnacross theline of vision, as described. In orderto accomplish thetranslation without having to rewind the receiving-tape on a secondreceiving-reel, I adopt the following plan: When the perforated tape isprepared at the transmitting-station,l wind it upon a reel,and of coursethe external end of the tape will be that having the end of the messageor matter to be transmitted perforated upon it. The tape may then betaken from such a reel and passed directly through the transmitter, themessage being sent in reverse; but this is no objection in high-speedautomatic telegraphy. The receiving-tape will therefore be wound uponthe reel with the latter part or end of the message or matter on theinner end of the tape, so that the tape may be taken directly from thiswheel for translation. However the receiving-tape is handled duringreception it may be finally placed on a suitable reel with the firstpart of the message at the outer end. Instead of having thereceiving-tape wound upon a reel it may be loosely contained in a basketand the devices hereinafter described employed to aid the operator inthe translation of the record thereon.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a sideelevation.

The reel V, having the pins 1; upon which the receiving-tape is wound,is slipped upon a pin or stud-axle V projecting from one end of theframe, and the tape from the reel passes over and lies upon a table orframe slightly inclined at the proper angle most convenient for thetranslator who is sitting in front of it. At the opposite end of thetable or frame is a device X for drawing the tape from the reel acrossthe table. This device may consist of a driven mechanism of anycharacter driving drawing rolls or devices X X, between which the end ofthe tape passes, and is preferably of such character as to beintermittently operated at each actuation to draw from thereceiving-reel a definite length of the tape. Thus the first word of themessage recorded upon the tape may be brought to the vertical line 3marked on the table, and there may be a similar line y at the oppositeend of the table. The translator having translated that part of therecord lying between these two lines may now throw the drawing device Xinto action, and during its period of actuation it will draw the tapeacross the table, so as to bring the next character following the partthat has already been translated to or adjacent to the vertical line y,when the operation of the device X will cease. The matter now beforethe' operator and between the lines 3 y is translated and the operationcontinued until the entire message has been transcribed. Of course thisoperation may be accomplished in a variety of ways. In the drawings Ihave indicated that a type-Writer may be employed for the translation, asection of a type-writer keyboard Y being shown. This board may haveupon it an electrical key Y to close the circuit of a local battery L13includinga magnet Y that effects the brief actuation of the drawingdevice X. This device X is shown in Fig. 2 as consisting of aclock-train driven from a suitable spring-drum X The armature-lever Y ofthe magnet Y engages a pin Y", projecting from one of the arbors of theclock-train. When the magnet is energized, it attracts its armature andthe armature-lever moves out of disengagement with the pin Y and uponthe demagnetization of the magnet instantly returns to its normalposition under the stress of its spring, so as to again engage the pinafter the arbor to which it is attached has made one revolution. Thetrain of gears is such that this limited movement of the device issufiicient to rotate the drawing-wheels X X such a number of times aswill be suflicient and no more to effect the transfer of a fresh lengthof tape into position in front of the translator and between thevertical lines y y.

This application is a division of my application filed December 15,1896, Serial No. 615,796. v

I claim as my invention 1. Atelegraphicreceiving-tape-translatingmechanism comprising the combination of a reel upon which thereceiving-tape is wound, a drawing device adapted to be intermittentlymay be in view of the operator, a drawing de-v vice arranged at one sideof the board and adapted to be intermittently actuated at the will ofthe operator to draw a definite length of the tape across the board, andmeans by which the operator may manually control the operation of thedrawing device.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

. PATRICK B. DELANY. Witnesses:

KATHARINE MACMAHON, EDWARD O. DAVIDSON.

